Humor

Humor: Firefox Logo in Deep Space

in Categories Humor, Mozilla last updated April 12, 2008

I, for one, would like to welcome our new Mozilla Firefox overload directly from deep space 😉

V838 Monocerotis (V838 Mon) is a variable star in the constellation Monoceros about 20,000 light years from the Sun. The star experienced a major outburst in early 2002. Originally believed to be a typical nova eruption, it was then realized to be something completely different. The reason for the outburst is still uncertain, but several theories have been put forward, including an eruption related to stellar death processes and a merger of a binary star or planets.

On January 10, 2002, a previously unknown star was seen to brighten up in Monoceros, the Unicorn. Being a new variable star, it was designated V838 Monocerotis, the 838th variable star of Monoceros.


(Fig. 01: Monocerotis as Firefox logo (Image credit NASA and Wired blog)

=> Firefox Logo Spied In Deep Space (via digg)

Humor: Know your System Administrator

in Categories Humor, Sys admin, UNIX last updated March 17, 2008

The joke on this page was obtained from the FSF’s email archives of the GNU Project:

There are four major species of Unix sysad:
1.The TECHNICAL THUG. Usually a systems programmer who has been forced into system administration; writes scripts in a polyglot of the Bourne shell, sed, C, awk, perl, and APL.

2.The ADMINISTRATIVE FASCIST. Usually a retentive drone (or rarely, a harridan ex-secretary) who has been forced into system administration.

3.The MANIAC. Usually an aging cracker who discovered that neither the Mossad nor Cuba are willing to pay a living wage for computer espionage. Fell into system administration; occasionally approaches major competitors with indesp schemes.

4.The IDIOT. Usually a cretin, morpohodite, or old COBOL programmer selected to be the system administrator by a committee of cretins, morphodites, and old COBOL programmers.
HOW TO IDENTIFY YOUR SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR:

Humor: Operating Systems and Airlines

in Categories Humor last updated December 13, 2007

If Operating Systems allowed to ran airlines. Absolutely hilarious, here is an an excerpt from post:

Everyone brings one piece of the plane along when they come to the airport. They all go out on the runway and put the plane together piece by piece, arguing non-stop about what kind of plane they are supposed to be building.

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Humor: Unusual data disaster horror stories for 2007

in Categories Data recovery, Hardware, Humor last updated December 7, 2007

Ontrack data recovery service has posted unusual data disaster horror stories for 2007. From the article:

An ant-infested hard drive and a failing parachute top a list of data disaster horror stories for 2007.

The list, provided by Kroll Inc.’s Ontrack Data Recovery unit, illustrates some of the strangest and wackiest things that people put electronic storage devices through on a regular basis.

Putting drives in the washing machine. Using oil to stop them from squeaking. These are just two examples of the user bloopers the company’s engineers nominated for inclusion on the list. Remarkably, Kroll data recovery specialists were able to recover the data in both instances.

=> Most unusual data disaster horror stories for 2007 [ via slashdot ]

Humor: Writing Web Service and Pages using Bourne Shell

in Categories Howto, Humor, Shell scripting, Tips last updated November 22, 2007

Why should shell languages be the only ones left out of the ${YOUR_LANGUAGE_HERE} Server Pages fad? This document chronicles foray into the not-so-fascinating world of ${YOUR_LANGUAGE_HERE} Server Pages technology. All of the code developed is available for free download, so you can use Bourne Shell Server Pages to build your very own killer Web application.

=> Bourne Shell Server Pages [hyperrealm.com]